The shadows of Ghadames
By: Joëlle Stolz ; translated from the French by Catherine Temerson.
Contributors: Temerson, Catherine.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Muslims -- Fiction.; Sex role -- Fiction.; Literacy -- Fiction.; Libya -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: At the end of the nineteenth century in Libya, eleven-year-old Malika simultaneously enjoys and feels constricted by the narrow world of women, but an injured stranger enters her home and disrupts the traditional order of things.